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Buy Elvis’s Library Card
By
Sadie Stein
August 9, 2012
On the Shelf
Elvis Presley’s 1948 library card
can be yours. At thirteen, The King checked out
The Courageous Heart: A Life of Andrew Jackson For Young Readers
from his high-school library.
We appreciate
this peek into book psychology
by one who should know, Waterstones: “Being books, and not understanding most things beyond their limited understanding, the books attribute most events to Father Christmas.”
Adam Gopnik remembers Robert Hughes
.
Some encouraging bookstore news, for a change: on their Kickstarter page, the founders of
Singularity & Co.
explain that their mission is to “choose one great out of print work or classic and/or obscure sci-fi a month, track down the people that hold the copyright (if they are still around), and publish that work online and on all the major digital book platforms for little or no cost.”
In 2013,
John Banville will bring Raymond Chandler’s hard-boiled detective Philip Marlowe back from the dead
under his crime-writing nom de guerre, Benjamin Black.
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